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Regional Football Championship – Round 1 team news – Game 2
Updated – 2/11/26 (5.05pm) Boyne Valley manager Joe Cowley had senior sides Seneschalstown and Rathkenny and St Colmcille’s and beaten county finalists Donaghmore/Ashbourne among his deck of cards to pick from as his side set out to win their third Richie Barry Cup title in the four years since the championships inception. Therein they would…
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Regional Football Championship – Round 1 team news
(Updated 1/11/2026, 9.27pm) The team news is in for the curtain raiser of the Brady’s Automotive Regional Football Championship with Moyfenragh taking on Tara at Devenish Park Dunganny. The match has a 12 noon throw in. Moyfenragh manager Joey Farrelly and his selectors have put together a strong starting 15 with nine different clubs represented…
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Ciara Mageean – RIP
Breaking Irish and indeed world sport is in mourning this morning with the news that Olympian and European Champion athlete Ciara Mageean this morning lost her courageous battle with bowel cancer. She was 34. A brief statement on the Portaferry lady’s Instagram account said: “At 6.30 this morning, Ciara lost her battle with cancer surrounded…
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Selections for Cork – Nov. 1st 2026
12.30: MAILLOCHE (BRIAN HAYES/WILLIE MULLINS) 1.05: TINTARA – EW – (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 1.40: IN FOR THE NIGHT – EW – (CHARLIE O’DWYER/CONOR O’DWYER) 2.15: ROC DINO (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.50: LOVE ME TENDER (HARRY COBDEN/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.25: BANTER AT THE BAR – EW – (HARRY COBDEN/MICHAEL MORRIS) 4.00: NUKIES ARTIC – EW – (JACK…
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Selections for Curragh – Nov. 1st 2026
12.17: CHOCTAW NATION (PADDY HARNETT (3)/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 12.52: SMOKE THEM OUT – EW – (SADHBH TORMEY (7)/TOM MCCOURT) 1.27: HAZDAAN – EW – (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 2.02: SPACE BOUND – EW – (PADDY MCGETTIGAN (5)/DANNY MCLOUGHLIN) 2.37: ASAKIR (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 3.12: UNCLE GOALIE – EW – (LUKE MCATEER/RORY DEVINE) 3.47: STARTING FIFTEEN – EW…
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Lack of familiar faces is the real fear factor
LEINSTER… 50 CONNACHT… 5 They haven’t gone away you know. Watching their marauding barbarism took the mind back to a GAA match almost three decades ago. The Leinster football final of 1997. When Meath took to the field with a full back line of Ned Kearney, Kevin Cahill and Donal Curtis. The following is not…
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Selections for Down Royal – Oct. 31st 2026
1.00: KENOUGH (JJ SLEVIN/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 1.30: SKERRY HILL (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.05: WHOLELOTOFBUSINESS – EW – (DAN KING/EOIN MCCARTHY) 2.38: LADIES WELL – EW – (CIAN QUIRKE/ANDY SLATTERY) 3.15: BANBRIDGE (JJ SLEVIN/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 3.50: KOKTAIL DIVIN (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 4.20: BRAVEMANS CALL – EW – (JOEY DUNNE (7)/EOIN MCCARTHY)
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Regional Football Championship 2026 Panels – An Tuaisceart
Last but by no means least, An Tuaisceart manager Tadhg Boyle from the Meath Hill club and his fellow mentors have announced the panel which they they will lead into the north county province’s defence of their Richie Barry Cup title. The all whites ensemble is drawn from a dozen different clubs and they are…
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Selections for Dundalk – Oct. 30th 2026
5.30: SOUTHERN BOULEVARD (GARY CARROLL/GER LYONS) 6.00: SUBIACO – EW – (REESE HOLOHAN (5)/JENNIFER A. LYNCH) 6.30: THUNDERBEAR (JACK KEARNEY/STEPHEN THORNE) 7.00: RIYAZANKA – EW – (SEAMIE HEFFERNAN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 7.30: SON OF BEAUTY – EW – (REESE HOLOHAN (5)/STEPHEN THORNE) 8.00: GO OUT (JAMES RYAN/DANNY MURPHY) 8.30: UNTERBERG – EW – (REESE HOLOHAN (5)/LAURA HOURIGAN)
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Selections for Down Royal – Oct. 30th 2026
1.00: WITH NO LIMIT (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 1.30: ANNIE BUTTON – EW – (DANNY GILLIGAN/PETER J. FLOOD) 2.00: ASH HOBBS (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 2.35: BLAKE (SAM EWING/NOEL MEADE) 3.10: COSTACOURTA – EW – (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 3.45: BALLYFAD (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 4.20: PREMIER DIVISION (HARRY SWAN/GORDON ELLIOTT)
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